PZFlex® Establishes European Base in Scotland
PZFlex® announced the establishment of an office in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland and the third most populated city in the United Kingdom, and appointed Gerald Harvey, PhD, as PZFlex Sales Manager, Europe. In this new role, Dr. Harvey will be responsible for coordinating all activities and sales of the 3D virtual prototyping software related to mainland Europe (all EU countries), including support and training of customers and the development of new business lines.
Weidlinger JV Awarded Los Alamos National Laboratory A&E IDIQ Subcontract
Weidlinger Associates announced this month that its Weidlinger-Navarro Northern New Mexico Joint Venture (WNNNM JV) was awarded one of six small business Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) subcontracts to provide architectural and engineering (A&E) services to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The subcontracts, which represent up to $200 million of work over five years and are intended to augment LANL’s in-house capabilities, “demonstrate the Laboratory’s commitment to working with small businesses in Northern New Mexico and the region,” according to Dennis Roybal, the Laboratory’s small business program manager.
08.2010
Weidlinger Engineers Take Lead at Nondestructive Testing Conference
Weidlinger principal Dr. Mohammed Ettouney, and Dr. Sreenivas Alampalli of the NY State DOT, coauthors of a two-volume book on infrastructure health monitoring, led a panel discussion on the effects of the I-35 bridge collapse on inspection practice and a one-day workshop on recent advances and technologies in bridge management. Weidlinger senior associate Qi Ye led a session on testing of pile foundations and his colleagues in Weidlinger’s bridge division presented a paper on cable evaluation and rehabilitation. read more
08.2010
NYC Public Design Commission Cites Three Weidlinger Projects
Weidlinger collaborated with Sage and Coombe Architects on award-winning designs for the Bronx River Art Center rehabilitation, Ocean Breeze track and field house, and on-pier Marine Company 9 firehouse. read more
08.2010
Dr. Howard Levine Awarded ASCE Newmark Medal
Dr. Levine received the Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for contributions to structural mechanics that have “substantially strengthened the scientific base of structural engineering.” Concurrently, Weidlinger consultant Frank L. DiMaggio received the Raymond D. Mindlin Medal. read more
07.2010
Weidlinger Leads Snøhetta Technical Team in Reconstructing Times Square
Weidlinger's already completed preliminary civil engineering plans for streets, sewers, utilities, and power generation will be integrated with Snøhetta’s final design. read more
07.2010
PZFlex® Provides Ultrasound Modeling for Promising Cancer Treatment
University of Leeds scientists are using nano-bubbles and ultrasound waves to transport small doses of chemotherapy drugs through the bloodstream directly to tumor sites. read more
Weidlinger Combines Roles of Engineer and LEED Consultant on Liberty Island Project
Sustainability governed the design of a new retail pavilion on Liberty Island, a National Parks Service structure that restores the processional to the Statue of Liberty.
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05.2010
Weidlinger Teams Up with Columbia Business School to Promote Green Tech
Panelists brought together by Weidlinger to discuss Emerging Technologies and Venture Capital at Cooper Union are members of an entrepreneurial sustainability community in New York City that seeks to become the next Silicon Valley. read more
05.2010
Expressway Rehab Is ASCE Long Island Project of the Year
Weidlinger designed five bridge rehabilitations for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway section honored by the Long Island chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. read more
04.2010
39 East 13th Street Wins City and State AIA Design Awards
Weidlinger collaborated with io Architects on the design of a commercial building that merged glass with historic cast iron, creating a new strategy for historic districts. read more
03.2010
Weidlinger Wins ACEC NY Diamond Award for Light-Rail Viaduct in Mexico
Weidlinger received the award for merging proven post-tensioning and concrete segmental technologies to produce an extremely cost efficient and streamlined light-rail viaduct in Monterrey, Mexico. read more
03.2010
ASCE LA Awards Gary Hart Life Membership
Dr. Hart joined ASCE in 1964, when he was a student at USC, and has received many awards from the organization throughout his career. read more
02.2010
Weidlinger to Engineer New London Embassy
Architect KieranTimberlake was selected from a group of four finalists in a competition to design the new U.S. Embassy in London; Weidlinger is the structural and blast engineer. read more
01.2010
PZFlex® 2.3 Reduces Total Cost of Product Development
A new version of Weidlinger's best-selling software adds memory, wizard tools, and new computational elements.
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12.2009
Weidlinger Receives Federal Funds for Developing Solar Panel with Columbia University
The Department of Energy awarded Weidlinger a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research grant, which NY State matched at 10 percent, to refine a promising new solar panel hybrid developed by Columbia Engineering professor Huiming Yin.
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12.2009
Najib Abboud Inteviewed for Canadian TV News Show
Abboud was interviewed about the World Trade Center tower collapses for a documentary on alternate theories. read more
12.2009
Mohammed Ettouney Addresses "Aging Buildings" Symposium
Dr. Mohammed Ettouney organized and spoke at a symposium on December 9, 2009, sponsored jointly by the Architectural Engineering Institute of ASCE and the Steel Ornamental Metal Institutes of New York, which addressed the technical aspects of designing buildings for longevity. read more
11.2009
2009 PROMOTIONS
Weidlinger's Board of Directors and Managing Principals announce promotions for 2009. read more
11.2009
Weidlinger Presents Five Papers at SAVIAC Symposium
Weidlinger researchers presented recent work on historic bridges, among other topics, at SAVIAC's 80th Shock and Vibration Symposium in San Diego from October 25-29, 2009. Jeffrey M. Thomsen received the Mel Baron Award, named for one of Weidlinger's founding partners. read more
11.2009
Weidlinger JV Awarded Los Alamos National Laboratory A&E IDIQ Subcontract
Weidlinger teamed with Navarro Research and Engineering and Rock Gap Engineering to pursue this small business opportunity. read more
09.2009
Matthys Levy Addresses IASS Jubilee Symposium in Spain
Levy explored structural solutions for water conservation as a newly elected Honorary Member of IASS (the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures).
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09.2009
PZFlex® Establishes European Base in Scotland
Weidlinger opened a PZFlex® office in Glasgow on September 1, headed by former Rolls-Royce principal technologist Gerald Harvey.
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06.2009
Pasadena Church Retrofit Wins Restoration Award
Weidlinger was the structural engineer for a seismic upgrade of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Pasadena, which received an LA Conservancy award. read more
The winner, a doctoral candidate at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, proposed using PZFlex® for research in micro-structured materials and tissue, with “potential benefits for both NDT and medical imaging.” read more
06.2009
Tian-Fang Jing Receives “Asian Americans in Business” Award
The design director of Weidlinger's East Coast Buildings group, who has been the structural designer of many US and Chinese landmarks, is one of fifty outstanding business leaders being honored by AABDC this year. read more
Matthys Levy Interviewed by earthpromise.com for Earth Day
Matthys Levy, who has been lecturing on climate change and is trying to focus attention on the lack of potable water, is one of 21 interviewees featured on a popular green-community website in anticipation of Earth Day. read more
04.2009
Weidlinger Receives ACEC NY Award for China's First Modern Cruise Terminal
The Gaoyang International Cruise Terminal is the first facility of its kind in the world to be placed underground; a bubble-shaped glass-clad observation building floats over it at one end. read more
04.2009
Weidlinger Announces Three New Principals
Gordon Chen, Steven Highfill, and Peter J. Quigley occupy leadership positions in newly created strategic business groups. read more
03.2009
Paper Explores New Imaging Technique for Soft Tissue Tumors
Dr. Nachiket H. Gokhale, a Weidlinger research engineer, has co-authored a paper that proposes a nonlinear imaging algorithm that could be used to distinguish between benign and malignant growths. read more
03.2009
Marcy Stanley Awarded AIA Honorary Membership
Ms. Stanley, Weidlinger's Director of Business Development, was cited for being “a great friend to architects and a bridge between the architectural and engineering communities.” read more
02.2009
Weidlinger Announces CFO Appointment
Weidinger announced the appointment of Ms. Rimma Zaleznik, MBA, CPA, and PMP, as Chief Financial Officer of the firm.
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12.2008
2008 NEWS BRIEFS
Weidlinger-sponsored award presented at SAVIAC conference; Weidlinger principals appear in Discovery Channel 9/11 documentary; Weidlinger CEO addresses industry's future at Professional Women in Construction event; Weidlinger researcher publishes a comprehensive review of blast analysis approaches. read more
11.2008
Matthys Levy Receives Columbia University Egleston Medal
Levy earned the engineering school's most prestigious alumni award for his “pioneering work in designing and developing unprecedented structures of beauty and utility around the world” and his direction of “one of the world’s leading structural engineering and applied mechanics firms.” read more
11.2008
Dr. Onur Avci’s Floor Vibrations Paper Wins AEI Award
Analysis of floor vibration problems that compromise tenant comfort is complicated; retrofit solutions are expensive and largely untested. Dr. Avci’s much-needed research focuses on extending bottom chords of popular and economical joist-supported floors. read more
10.2008
2008 PROMOTIONS
Weidlinger's Board of Directors and Managing Principals announce promotions for 2008. read more
09.2008
Dr. Pawel Woelke Co-Authors Book on Shell Structures
Elasto-Plastic and Damage Analysis of Plates and Shells advances the field of shell structures and creates new analytical tools to assess damage caused by multiple hazards. read more
07.2008
Weidlinger on ENR's List of "Top 100 Green Design Firms"
Weidlinger was among the handful of engineers named to the first list of leading green firms compiled by Engineering News-Record magazine. read more
06.2008
Dr. Mohammed Ettouney Receives Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Mohammed Ettouney is the second Weidlinger principal to receive the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Homer Gage Balcom Award, named for the engineer of Empire State building. read more
06.2008
New PZFlex Version Serves Smaller Companies
Small to mid-sized companies can now purchase a more affordable version of Weidlinger's popular PZFlex virtual prototyping software that meets their needs for reduced time to market of new designs. read more
04.2008
Fabric Structure and Utilities Protection Win ACEC NY Awards
Weidlinger received the Diamond for its Pier 3 Cruise Ship Canopy in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the Platinum for protecting utilities during demolition of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut. read more
03.2008
PZFlex 2.0 Adds SolidWorks Interface
The newest version of Weidlinger's virtual-laboratory software is significantly more user-friendly, featuring faster modeling startup. PZFlex supports innovations in medicine, energy, transportation and telecoms and is first in world markets for mediclal therapeutics and sonar.
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02.2008
USDOT HQ Earns Engineering Merit Award
SEA-MW honored Weidlinger Associates for its structural and protective design of DC’s first new cabinet-level building in 30 years. read more
02.2008
Van Eepoel Chosen to Represent the “New Face of Engineering”
Peggy Van Eepoel is being featured by the coalition of engineering societies that sponsor National Engineers Week; she is her division's youngest Associate and a specialist in blast engineering. read more
01.2008
Weidlinger Names Five New Principals
The five engineers who were promoted to principal are experts in their respective fields; all head Weidlinger divisions or branch offices. read more
SAVIAC Selects Weidlinger Team Paper on Progressive Collapse for Pusey Award
Eric Hansen, Darren Tennant, Robert Smilowitz, and Jim Weeks accepted the award at SAVIAC’s 78th Annual Shock and Vibration Symposium. read more
10.2007
Matthys Levy Awarded CCNY Townsend Harris Medal
The Medal, named for CCNY’s founder, is given for “exemplary contributions to his chosen field of endeavor.” Levy engineered the Marriott Marquis Hotel, where the awards dinner was held, as well as many City College buildings and New York City landmarks. read more
09.2007
Symposium Explores New Field of Multi-Hazard Engineering
Analyzing hazards in combination reduces the cost of protecting infrastructure and promises improved safety. Weidlinger principals spoke at a symposium that considered new methods of addressing the multiple threats of blast, earthquake, wind, flood, and wave surge. read more
06.2007
Seismic Retrofit Receives California Engineering Awards
Extensive advanced computer modeling demonstrated that using conventional braces to upgrade Watson Hall at Orange Coast College was more efficient and less costly than using more fashionable alternatives. read more
06.2007
Guang-Nan Fanjiang Receives "Asian Americans in Business" Award
The managing director of Weidlinger Associates’ bridge engineering division is one of fifty outstanding business leaders honored by AABDC this year. read more
06.2007
Weidlinger Expands Its Structural Engineering Design Practice in Los Angeles
Weidlinger Associates has joined with Brian L. Cochran and Associates to provide full-service building design on the West Coast. read more
05.2007
Weidlinger Receives Two Awards for the National Museum of the Marine Corps
The famous image of Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, captured first as a photograph by Joe Rosenthal for the Associated Press, and then as a bronze monument, was an inspiration to Fentress Bradburn Architects for the award-winning structure. read more
05.2007
Matthys Levy Publishes Book on Weather and Global Warming
Environmental activist Bill McKibben calls Matthys Levy's WHY THE WIND BLOWS “a straightforward, fascinating and powerful users' guide to the planet.” Levy set out to write an entertaining primer about the weather, but his research led him to take a strong stand on climate change and to present his findings at a technical meeting in China. read more
02.2007
Weidlinger Engineers Protect Lifelines During New Haven Coliseum Demolition
Blasting the columns of the massive structure caused neither gas leaks nor interruptions to vital communications. Weidlinger's "green" temporary structures were made from recycled Coliseum soil and materials. read more
06.2006
Marcy Stanley Receives SMPS Marketing Achievement Award
Stanley has worked in all marketing areas during her 20-year career in the A/E/C industry. As Director of Business Development for Weidlinger's buildings practice, Stanley increased the firm's business in New York and Washington, DC. read more
01.2006
Raymond Daddazio Elected to Lead Weidlinger
Dr. Raymond Daddazio has succeeded Dr. Jeremy Isenberg as President and Chief Executive Officer. He is the third person to lead the firm since its establishment in 1949. read more
01.2006
Peter DiMaggio Named Principal of Weidlinger
DiMaggio has led a variety of projects in the U.S. and overseas. He is currently working on two historically significant projects: a U.S. embassy on Pariser Platz in Berlin next to the Brandenburg Gate and a University of Virginia academic building. read more
10.2005
Mohammed Ettouney Leads Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI)
Weidlinger principal Ettouney is a multifaceted engineer and researcher who seeks to inspire a more multidisciplinary approach to solving problems of the built environment and improving the codes that govern design and construction. read more
06.2005
Weidlinger Engineers Redesign Times Square
The "Crossroads of the World" are about to become wider and more pedestrian-friendly. The new plan has already been traffic-tested for more than two years using asphalt extensions and temporary bollards. read more
03.2005
Weidlinger Receives ACEC Award for Airport Station Roof
Weidlinger has designed the first-known application of a triangulated spine truss for Boston's MBTA Airport Station. Although similar trusses have been used on other projects, they have never taken this very efficient form. read more